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Recently, Senator Widener joined Ohio Farm Bureau Vice President Jack Fisher on Town Hall Ohio's weekly radio program to discuss his concept for Global Impact STEM Academies.

"The concept is to go into urban environments and begin to study energy, environment, bioscience, and food science," Widener said. "It would be project-based learning that the industry is working, like how do you get that fifth bean to grow in a soybean pod?"

You can listen to the entire interview on the Town Hall Ohio radio program

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